Places ASocialNomad Wants to Go

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

This pair of small sea rocks has been "wed" using rope and ancient Shinto tradition.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

A monument to the British doctor who connected mosquitoes to malaria.

One-room museum dedicated to India's most enigmatic mathematician.

A village in India with a mysteriously high number of twins.

This restaurant is proud to be built atop a burial ground.

One of the tallest mountains in India was closed for years after a botched CIA mission.

Known as the wettest place on earth.

Camera cars and condom bikes built from scrap and one man's passion.

Old and brave breed of warhorses known for their elegant, curved ears.

Made by a man on a worldwide sanitation crusade.

The abandoned site of the Beatles spiritual awakening and subsequent revolt.